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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Online merchants outside the counter block transactions originating from the Philippines and some other countries. This measure is intended to prevent credit card fraud by blocking customers en masse, instead of addressing fraud on a case-to-case basis. One merchant with this policy is the domain registrar GoDaddy.com, which now blocks IP connections from the Philippines. Their blocking strategy affected local domain owners who used them to register domains. The Philippines is known among merchants to ave high incidence of online fraud.

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The Philippine Internet Review: Ten Years of the Internet (1994-2004) is a special publication that chronicles and explains the development of the Internet in the Philippines from its inception in 1994 to 2004.